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Ávila

[ ah-vuh-luh; Spanish ah-vee-lah ]

noun

  1. a city in central Spain, a religious and academic center.


Ávila

/ ˈaβila /

noun

  1. a city in central Spain: 11th-century granite walls and Romanesque cathedral. Pop: 52 078 (2003 est)


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For many, Ávila’s arrival in office is cause for celebration — or at least a sigh of relief, writes Sandra Dibble in this week’s Border Report.

“We have a very complicated financial situation, much more money was spent than was coming in,” Ávila told the Tijuana newsweekly, Zeta, and said her first year in office will be focused on cleaning up the state’s finances.

Around that same time, Rose-Avila returned to El Salvador as regional director for Save the Children.

“Our house became a kind of community center for deported gang members from L.A.,” said Rose-Avila, picking up the story.

Frederickson testified that the following day he interviewed Adan Avila in his hospital bed.

Avila, who was wounded in the right leg and left arm, told the detective that Holmes was targeting “people who were fleeing.”

As in some respects my translation differs from that of Avila, I give his.

Wherever such a company may be congregated, Pedro Arias de Avila is entitled to a high and exclusive place.

But Pedro Arias de Avila had already sailed from the mother country to supplant him.

Having succeeded so well in Espaola, Avila was now sent to Spain.

San Vicente stands outside the walls of Avila, close to one of the principal gates, and near the north-east angle of the city.

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