To have a predictable partner, they predictably love you, they predictably are generous with you, they predictably help you, they predictably put you first.
His goal was to make Russia "a predictable partner", he added.
"Our objective is to be a steady, reliable, predictable partner, both to our individual grantees and to the whole field of organizations that count on us," Mr. Fanton said.
President Vladimir V. Putin has surely packaged it that way, telling a World Economic Forum meeting in Moscow last month that as "instability in the world directly impacts world markets, Russia remains a reliable and predictable partner and supplier of oil".
The bulk of the evening seemed to recall dance-theater of the mid-90's in wordplay and predictable partnering until the real thing came along: an excerpt from Patricia Hoffbauer and George Emilio Sanchez's 1996 "Architecture of Seeing".
Peekytoe crab took a predictable partner, avocado, but the avocado was the base of an ice cream, which deftly accentuated the sense of summer in this cool breeze of a dish.
"All our foreign partners need to understand this: Russia is a democratic country, it's a reliable and predictable partner with which they can and must reach agreement, but on which they cannot impose anything from the outside," Putin told the United Russia convention.
The auto industry changed because it faced a crisis, yes, but also because it discovered that it had a reliable, predictable partner in the American people, as expressed in the investment the Obama Administration made.
The sustainability of an interventional program like KC is also often not predictable, as implementing partners can withdraw support at short notice.
Much of the choreography is a collage of athletic positions — lunges, squats or crossing the ankle over the knee — mixed with predictable formations and partnering in which the women jump into the arms of men who hold them across their chests while turning.
