The phrase "a desire to devote" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when expressing a strong wish or intention to dedicate time, effort, or resources to a particular cause or activity.
Example: "She has a desire to devote her life to helping those in need."
Alternatives: "a wish to dedicate" or "an intention to commit".
Mr. Skirball said his resignation was prompted by a desire to devote all of his time to his own independent film production activities.Damon Runyon's short story, "A Call on the President," has been purchased by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Kristin's experience in Africa sparked a desire to devote her career to working in education, and she unexpectedly found a place she could make a huge impact on the education sector: school meals and nutrition education.
Here the initiative came from the series editors, and their interest coincided with our desire to devote a higher visibility to bioinformatics within our publication program.
Do you have the time and desire to devote yourself to a long-term relationship, or are you looking for something with a lower level of commitment?
Again and again he was frustrated in his desire to devote more time to composition.
Another element in my desire to devote my life to service to humanity was my parents' divorce.
He went through the reasons for going, above all the risk of renewed psychodrama if he hung around and his desire to devote more time to his family.
In 1982 the prince, then 36, grabbed headlines when he said he wanted to secede from the imperial family, citing his desire to devote himself to his work.
This "selfless generosity … galvanized my desire to devote my career to helping the citizens of the developing world".
Sullivan, reflecting on this, on his own longstanding kidney problems, and on his desire to devote himself to more serious music, replied to Carte, "[I]t is impossible for me to do another piece of the character of those already written by Gilbert and myself".
In the latter case, the decision to join the family business does not often arise from women's own desires to devote themselves to the business.
