Allan B. Rothschild, managing director of the New York office of CB Richard Ellis, the brokerage and services company, said: "Our view is that the market in Midtown South will be able to withstand the problems of the dot-coms.
Brokers and researchers say the current low inventory in New York City could help the city withstand the problems that have plagued much of the rest of the country, where inventory is high.
Christian Noyer, head of the Bank of France, insisted the country's banks were strong enough to withstand the problems in Greece despite anxiety in the markets about French banks' ability to cope with the pressures in the eurozone.
On Sept. 25, the orchestra's executive director, Edward Smith, resigned abruptly after only 10 months in his post, declaring starkly that "I don't believe the organization will be able to withstand the problems with which it is faced".
The president's message to Americans (a bit different from what his government has acknowledged to the Iranian parliament) is that the international sanctions that are tightening around Iran's economy are barely an annoyance: "we can withstand the problems".
Such a rise is projected to have less impact in industrialized nations than in developing countries, which tend to be in warmer regions and have infrastructures less able to withstand the inevitable problems.
"It's a fear of contagion," he said, while adding that Asian banks were better positioned than most to withstand the current problems because the region's high savings rate tends to mean that Asian banks are net lenders in international money markets.
"It's a fear of contagion," Mr. Bibby said, while adding that Asian banks were better positioned than most to withstand the current problems because the region's high savings rates tends to mean that Asian banks are net lenders in international money markets.
There was an acknowledgment that the financial climate is only going to continue to get worse and that although Scottish charities have perhaps not suffered as much from financial cutbacks as their English counterparts, they still needed to become more resourceful to withstand the likely problems ahead.
Note that although it is widely accepted that the discriminant-based approaches offer higher robustness to lighting variations than the PCA-based approaches [3], the discriminant-based approaches still cannot withstand the low-resolution problem coupled with illumination variations in our work.
