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How to use polis in a sentence

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Those responsible for the development of the multifunction polis should avoid selection of a site based on political expediency.
Nevertheless, through the Delphic oracle, the polis could ensure some, if ambiguous, assurance of the correctness of its religious discourse.
The theoroi of each polis conducted ritual acts in the Panhellenic sanctuaries in the name of that polis.
Not sure if I can make it, but it was well-attended last year, we got mugshot by the polis, which must be the mark of a good demo.
As promised, the Belgian polis showed zero tolerance and set a standard for policing football supporters, other forces might aspire to.
The appeal of the cosmopolis is in inverse proportion to one's links to the polis.
He became a prominent figure in debates about the multifunction polis proposed for South Australia.
The multifunction polis near Adelaide has been drastically scaled down by authorities.
Each city state or polis had its own political organization and thus was truly independent.
In many poleis, the common hearth of the polis, the koine hestia, which was also an altar-hearth for Hestia, was located in the prytaneion.
The ideal of the polis was that every individual was to take a direct role in political, economic, spiritual and social affairs.
With time, the agora or marketplace began to appear within the polis.
Frank is retiring, Baldwin is running for the Senate, and polis and Ciciline are up for reelection.
Ian and his companions stood their ground, pointed out that the splutterer could only request a withdrawal, and suggested he call the polis should arbitration be required.
By the eighth century BC, the Greek city-state, or polis, had taken shape.
Isocrates, on the other hand, appropriates the language of praise as a goading device to strengthen the commitment of his polis to a pan-Hellenic ideal.
The Greeks did not really describe anything which went beyond the polis.
The multifunction polis is an inelegant name for an elegant concept.
The ideal of the cyborg polis must therefore be pursued in better forms.
In origin it signified the often expensive offerings wealthy Greeks made in service to the people, and thus to the polis and the state.
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From pasture to polis is one result of these trends, and of growing interest in the Dark Age, in America as well as Britain.
She longed to be in the polis again, among civilized people.
If only he were Greek, what a fighter for the polis he would be.
And her place in the polis was dependent on the basileus, Michael.
The polis was the hub of the world, the fulfillment of all desires.
Indeed, the greatness and honor of the polis defined those of its members.
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