Five years ago, the Justice Department called the Animal Liberation Front "a loose configuration of small, autonomous 'cells,' with no centralized command structure."

The group had formed the same leaderless-resistance model as the ALF, which consists of small, autonomous, covert cells acting independently.

There are many autonomous cells in Europe and North America we do not know about.

Side by side, Jatin developed a decentralised federated body of loose autonomous regional cells.

This is an autonomous cell within the autocephalous jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.

Although it would not have seemed impossible for such autonomous cells to get involved in a scandal, evidence later discredited the MI6 theory.

These autonomous cells are then scattered in the landscape, accommodating geographical and environmental specificities.

Those trained in the methods and objectives of Al Qaeda will probably regroup as small, autonomous cells.

Past terrorist groups did incorporate autonomous cells, but they were largely coordinated in a non-networked manner.

Rather, they broke into autonomous cells that, to mask their activities, did not show outward signs of traditional Muslim piety and had only loose connections to one another.