Being led by eager, earnest but unqualified amateurs is no way to run an organisation with 90,000 staff and a turnover of £12bn when the main competitors are fierce beasts like Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Aldi.
Deep in the woods of Russia's far east, the powerful leader was on a mission to help save the endangered amur tiger, when one of the fierce beasts appeared out of nowhere and attacked.
The biggest tomb holds Ong Sam Leong, who died in 1917, having made a fortune out of his monopoly on the supply of coolie labour to phosphate mines on Christmas Island.Like many other graves, it is protected not just by statues of fierce beasts, golden boys and jade maidens, but also by models of imposing Sikh guards.
Yet, like their Hollywood counterpart, wolverines are fierce beasts in serious trouble.
The next morning, she and her women warriors mount their "fierce beasts" wearing gold armor "adorned with the most precious stones", advancing to invest the city.
Today, the country's strained financial circumstances make it more of a stray cat than a fierce jungle beast.
This restored version of the original reveals that it is, in fact, a minor masterpiece by a highly gifted former assistant to Kurosawa and features one of Japan's greatest actors, Takashi Shimura, leader of The Seven Samurai, as a palaeontologist investigating the appearance of a fierce prehistoric beast awakened by an American H-bomb test in the Pacific.
Set in the Scottish highlands, the film concerns flame-haired archer princess Merida (voiced by Kelly Macdonald), who according to the official synopsis "confronts tradition, destiny and the fiercest of beasts... to carve her own path in life".
Similarly, the Ming dynasty vernacular novel Water Margin depicts a tiger as a fierce man-eating beast that causes human suffering among ordinary villagers.
