The phrase "a desire to decrease" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when expressing a wish or intention to reduce something, such as costs, risks, or negative impacts.
Example: "The organization has a desire to decrease its carbon footprint in order to promote sustainability."
Alternatives: "an intention to reduce" or "a wish to lower".
The United States also provides about 8,000 troops to the NATO peacekeeping operations, though senior Pentagon officials have expressed a desire to decrease the number of American forces.
With this latter requirement in mind and a desire to decrease equipment size, the silicon-based LIULIN-4N LET (linear energy transfer) spectrometer has been assessed to determine its suitability as a mixed field instrument and possible code verification tool.
Metabolic engineering applications are driven by a desire to decrease costs, increase yields, increase efficiency, increase consumer acceptability, and use renewable feedstocks to provide a more environmentally friendly process than traditional chemical approaches.
The decision to create a coaching culture must be done in the context of a broader corporate goal — a growth strategy to increase revenue, perhaps, or a need to speed the time it takes new salespeople to become productive, or a desire to decrease costly sales turnover.
My guess is that use of UVA and UVB blockers, motivated largely by a desire to decrease skin cancer risk, traded relatively easily curable skin cancers for incurable and/or more advanced bowel, breast, thyroid and other tumors… an unexpected and unhappy consequence.
There has been speculation that McGuinn's decision to re-record Parsons' lead vocals himself was not entirely motivated by the threat of legal action, but by a desire to decrease Parsons' presence on the album.
There is indeed some chance for common ground here in the mutual respect for different moral convictions and a shared desire to decrease the need for abortion.
The desire to decrease the intake of medication was a strong motive for engaging in physical therapy and, in cases when medication did not work, physical therapy was considered a possibility of reaching alleviation.
Echoing comments she made in a recent "60 Minutes" interview, DeVos in the hearing emphasized her desire to decrease the federal footprint on the guns-in-school issue and have local officials handle it.
As part of the Pentagon's desire to decrease its presence in Afghanistan, it was sending to Cuba those prisoners who could provide no further information regarding the war, Rear Adm. Craig R. Quigley of the United States Central Command said today.
This has not only inspired my desire to decrease the amount of food wasted, but also made me appreciate the human labor and natural capital that goes into making the food I now buy in a grocery store.
