The two are reluctant partners, but work well together.

But the Police Department has been a reluctant partner, some city officials said, and to this day maintains its own separate crisis center.

Roz still felt the same but Steve, the reluctant partner, had moved on.

In real life, both his biographers agree, Martin was the reluctant partner, and no one knows where the overture took place.

This led to a series of matches with the two against each other, as well as reluctant partners.

For Washington, a political complication was keeping reluctant partners in its coalition.

The Police Department, at times, was a reluctant partner and maintained its own crisis center.

So Lewis swiveled slowly back and forth, studying his reluctant partners in turn.

But in general Britain continues to play the reluctant partner.

An arranged marriage between two reluctant partners in 19th-century Russia.