Sentence examples for accept decorations from inspiring English sources

High acquisition costs could motivate males to accept decorations placed on their bowers and to steal them from other males.

If males rejected the yellow wires, this would indicate that they were not accepting decorations indiscriminately.

All three refused to accept the decoration, one of them expressing himself in the grossest possible language.

Why did male great bowerbirds accept the experimental decorations when doing so caused increased interference from rivals?

Dr. Mukai accepted the decoration in a ceremony at the residence of the Honorable Jun Yamada, Consul General of Japan in San Francisco.

In 1900 he was obliged to accept work on the decoration of the Grand Palais, which was being erected to house part of the new Exposition Universelle in the Champs-Élysées quarter.

He was appointed a member of the Grand Order of Hamondieh of Zanzibar and was permitted to accept and wear the decoration on 25 August 1897.

In contrast to the social control hypothesis, males in both populations accepted most supplemental decorations.

And, while Kate Lewis's leather jackets certainly work as clothing, their perforations, healed scars and bead-patterned interiors suggest personal narratives that the wearer must accept as more than just decoration.

On becoming a Commander of the British Empire in 2006, Stott reflected on how friends might perceive this decoration, which he was honoured to accept.

Li-yan hangs Han New Year decorations and accepts an American name.