The phrase "a certain desire to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express a specific or particular inclination or wish towards something.
Example: "She had a certain desire to travel the world and experience different cultures."
Alternatives: "a specific wish to" or "a particular longing to".
When you talk about him to friends, you say how polite he always was, how he aroused but also froze a certain desire to protect him.
There was a certain desire to know which was stronger, this maid's loyalty to us, or her loyalty to God: part of me was keen to wage war with this other world into which she escaped, sometimes returning with angry threats.
When a person wants to have a certain desire and wants to be moved by it, then he or she is said to "identify" with the desire and its motivational efficacy.
If we're really in such a rush, it would make a lot more sense to use the approval, appropriations, and contracting system already in place, rather than inventing a whole new bureaucracy, for speed.One senses Mr Obama emphasised infrastructure make-work schemes to help satisfy a certain desire among liberals to see a greater direct government effort to boost employment.
Thus, fear might be a combination of a certain thought (the thought that there is an abyss ahead), a certain desire (a desire not to fall), and certain sensations (those peculiar to anxiety).
And the examples that I gave show that this level of belief and behavior may in fact be linked to a certain desire or value of God within Jain praxis.
You shouldn't need a motivation or justification to correct spelling or factual errors on Wikipedia -- a certain desire for orderliness, good grammar, or truth should be sufficient.
The axial stress distribution of a linear elastic bar is investigated, in particular, we seek for an answer to the following question: in which manner do we have to distribute eigenstrains, such that the axial stress in a bar is equal to a certain desired stress distribution, despite external forces or support excitations are present?
We analyze the case where one is given a set of initial subunit concentrations A0, B0, and C0, and wants to change them to achieve a certain desired decrease in the amount of the target complex.
Automatic gain control adjusts the received signal strength in the receive chain, either via analog or digital gain, to a certain desired power suitable for best performance.
In a plot of the slope of the heat withdrawal rate line vs the dimensionless residence time the area is determined in which operation is feasible and safe when a certain desired yield or selectivity has to be achieved.
