Azuela

[ ah-swey-luh; Spanish ah-swe-lah ]

noun

1. Ma·ria·no [mah-, ryah, -naw], 1873–1952, Mexican physician and novelist.

Example Sentences

This attitude is perhaps best illustrated by a statement from Mariano Azuela, a justice who opposed abortion when it came before Mexico's Supreme Court in 2008: "I feel that a woman in some way has to live with the phenomenon of becoming pregnant. When she does not want to keep the product of the pregnancy, she still has to suffer the effects during the whole period."

From Salon

Sarah Azuela said the ad she saw her final year of college in Mexico promised coming to the United States to work as an au pair would be the best year of her life, full of travel, meeting new people and becoming part of an American family.

From Seattle Times

Nevertheless, Azuela was grateful her host mother gave her time to study for a business certificate at a university, which led her to extend her stay, and for not yelling or threatening to hit her as a previous host had done.

From Seattle Times

“I don’t wish anyone to experience anything like this,” Azuela, who is from Hermosillo, Mexico, but now lives in Wisconsin, said about why she joined in the lawsuit.

From Seattle Times

At her last placement — working for a single mother in Virginia — Azuela said that in addition to helping care for three children, she cooked all the meals, cleaned the house, planted flowers and packed up the family’s belongings and helped move them twice, first to an interim apartment and then to their new permanent home.

From Seattle Times