1971 — Fred O. Sink, "Of The People", The Dispatch, 18 October 1971:
[…] and (2) all too often it occurs that the grandparents listed are contemporaries of mine and therefore far too young to qualify in the aval category.
Sosrodihardjo found it hard to support his children, and the young Sukarno was sent to stay with his grandmother […] Believing that the boy had supernatural powers of healing, she put him to licking the afflicted parts of ailing villagers, and decided that he would be a clairvoyant. But alas for aval ambitions; Sukarno turned out to be a visionary of quite a different sort.
2010 — William Penn, Love in the Time of Flowers, Trafford Publishing (2010), →ISBN, page 254:
I fell into despondency at the loss of my aval security blanket, started having crying spells.