The phrase "ability and appetite" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone's capacity or willingness to engage in a particular activity or pursue a specific goal.
Example: "Her ability and appetite for learning new languages have always impressed her teachers."
Alternatives: "capacity and desire" or "skill and enthusiasm".
So, the evidence points to key factors that could help increase community health workers' ability and appetite to deliver.
If we leave the most difficult, boring or frustrating work to robots, this might change our ability and appetite for more stimulating or meaningful work.
We've created routes through to master's level that enable those with the ability and appetite to progress eventually to a chartered engineer.
As novice riders, we had kept to day trips from Bertrand's comfortable inn in Nocito - so he could vary the length and pace of the day according to his group's ability and appetite.
In Ronaldo they boast one of the world's two outstanding footballers who has the ability and appetite to score goals from anywhere and at any moment.
Yucca extracts have been found to promote growth, improve immune system, antimicrobial ability and stimulate appetite and anti-stress characteristics.
With her ability and promise and appetite, the Olympics seem to be in her future.
Moyes said on the appointment of Neville: "I have known and worked with Philip for eight years and in that time I have come to know his dedication, ability to lead and appetite for hard work.
Moyes added: "I have known and worked with Philip for eight years and in that time I have come to know his dedication, ability to lead and appetite for hard work.
During home visits the following were recorded - BP, HR, O2 saturations and temperature (on an observations form), clinical symptoms and examination findings, ability to eat/drink and appetite, bowel habit, and current mobility/exercise tolerance.
He wrote about sports, arguing that as depicted in news accounts of the 1910s and afterward, Babe Ruth — with his prodigious public abilities and private appetites — was an archetypal "prowess hero" in the tradition of Paul Bunyan.
