Frequency of sex with a regular partner inevitably declines unless you do something about it.
For 16 years, Morgan had a regular partner, John Scott, the subject of several poems.
Kompany has not had a regular partner this season, switching between Martin Demichelis and Eliaquim Mangala.
Unlike the men, they do not even like to practice together, preferring to hit with a regular partner or coach.
His sparring partner here is the trumpeter Freddie Hendrix; on piano is a regular partner, Larry Willis.
But since then, to the ire of Macedonians, Mr. Ahmeti has become a regular partner for negotiations with NATO leaders.
"I didn't have a regular partner, I was playing with a lot of different people, not really having any success at all," he said.
But Mr. Tepfer, a regular partner in arms of the alto saxophonist Lee Konitz, brings a stubborn inquisitiveness to this exercise that Mr. Motian would probably have admired.
On Thursday he'll regroup with a regular partner, the guitarist Dave Stryker, in a quartet with Ms. Slocum, James Weidman on piano and Bernard Purdie on drums.
The European Union delegation in Baku released a statement on Friday saying it "deplores" the damage to Ms. Yunus's organization, "a regular partner of the international community".
It has also been suggested that his lack of a regular partner this season, with Pellegrini alternating between Eliaquim Mangala and Martin Demichelis, might have been disruptive.
