Which of the following policies was enforced by creating a series of alliances to limit the spread of communism?
a. operation "rolling thunder"
b. the "containment policy"
c. the "patriot act"
d. the "police action policy"

polisit can also mean a body of citizens. in modern historiography, polis is normally used to indicate the ancient greek city-states, like classical athens and its contemporaries, and thus is often translated as "city-state". the body of citizens came to be the most important meaning of the term polis in ancient greece.