Firing on the German concentration was limited to some individual commanders using their own initiative.
Now it was left to the individual commanders to pick a name for his new spaceship.
Moscow has said it would negotiate with individual Chechen commanders, however, to get them to lay down their weapons.
Now and then reports came through from individual commanders.
Since then, while individual military commanders have considerable prestige and influence, the army as a whole has been kept out of national politics.
In other parts of the country, individual military commanders will be free to do the same, according to their own assessments.
It was left to the individual commanders to decide on the method to be used.
At first it fell to individual commanders to develop tactical deception on the battlefield.
It often boils down to the tolerance of individual commanders, he said.
You've got more than enough on your plate without dealing with individual commanders.