About two years after a solar maximum, the Pacific experiences conditions similar to El Nino the opposite of La Nina.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

"The present canal has a total capacity of about three hundred and forty million tons a year that it can handle, that's the maximum capacity.

VOA: special.2011.08.08

He says his team showed the effects of a new process to understand what happens in the Pacific's warm waters where there is a maximum of solar activity.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

"Because the NBA has a free agency system that has a maximum salary, the players in this case were able to exercise their leverage in an unanticipated way by bringing the three of them together.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

If properly managed, clearing and replanting trees in a 30-year cycle creates both a renewable source of energy and maximum rubber production.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

But his mother's claim that he is a 16-year-old juvenile could pose a problem for prosecutors seeking the maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

Other teams he has been considering could pay him a maximum $96.1 million over five years;

VOA: standard.2010.07.08

UNHCR spokesman,Andrej Mahecic, says more than 850 people are being held in the center, which is meant to hold only a maximum of 300 people.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

They don't want him to go out. He's been in jail for more than 20 years now and the maximum rule is to keep him inside a cell.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

After two men died of heat-related causes in Moscow's metro, a consumer group sued the transit operator to bring down temperatures to the legal maximum of 32 degrees centigrade.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

Lawmakers who will negotiate the differences for the Senate and House will have to ensure that a final bill is below the $900 billion the president set as a maximum figure.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Ileana Ros Lehtinen is the ranking committee Republican "It should be clear that unless we impose the maximum pressure on Iran, and this bill is a major step forward in that direction, the regime will continue its march toward acquiring nuclear weapons, dominating the Persian Gulf, and expanding its network of radical militants around the world,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.28