For the tour Van Gaal has had many of his wishes acceded to with regard to ensuring best possible preparation.
The only son of King Gustav VI Adolf's eldest son, Prince Gustav Adolf (who died in an air crash in 1947), Carl Gustaf became crown prince in 1950, when his grandfather acceded to the throne.
…minister and deputy crown prince Muhammad ibn Salman, who, despite being only 29 years old when his father acceded to the throne, took on a portfolio of high-profile domestic and foreign policy issues.
Mr. Gore forced the topic back onto the campaign agenda last week with his call, acceded to by President Clinton, for the government to release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to head off shortages of home heating oil -- an action that both the president and the vice president had opposed earlier in the year.
Angelo dela Cruz, right, a Philippine truck driver taken hostage by insurgents in Iraq, was released in Baghdad after his government acceded to the hostage-takers' demands and completed the withdrawal of its 51 soldiers and police officers from Iraq a month early.
26 October: The Maharaja of Kashmir, earlier inclined to stay independent due to the demographic composition of his state, accedes to India, presumably under duress.
Etan, as every New Yorker who was around in the 1980s remembers, disappeared on his way to catch a school bus on the first day his parents -- acceding to pleas from the boy himself -- let him walk alone two blocks to the bus stop.
While his parents rarely acceded to his wish to be called Suleyman, they did support him financially as he went off to Yemen and Pakistan to study Arabic and Islam.
Instead of acceding to his sensible request, European finance ministers imposed a new target of 5.3 percent.
Pate's parents waited until he was in the third grade before acceding to his persistent requests for piano lessons.
