DHS
Americanabbreviation
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(in Canada) district high school
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(in the US) Department of Homeland Security
Example Sentences
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DHS pulled into its structure several preexisting agencies, such as the Coast Guard, which continued to perform their traditional missions.
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But now they performed them under an additional bureaucratic layer, DHS departmental management, which added no value.
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DHS was and is less than the sum of its constituent parts.
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As a new agency staffing up rapidly, DHS wanted to hire people fast.
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For a decade after its 2003 creation, DHS was a governmental orphan, given that even a nascent bureaucratic empire has to establish its headquarters in Washington, where space is precious and physical proximity to the Capitol or the White House correlates with access and influence.
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