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The phrase "harbor desire" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when expressing a feeling of wanting or longing for something, often in a more poetic or emotional context. Example: "She began to harbor desire for a life filled with adventure and excitement."
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Furthermore, we have few illusions that were we to agree to all present Palestinian Authority territorial demands (which I often want us to do), our legitimate rights as Jews to Israel would still be denied by the Palestinian Authority, and much of Islam would still harbor desires to rid us Jews from Islam's heartland.
That triggered my fascination, and I started to harbor desires to grow powerful and unify the nation like he did.
At my first meeting with Prime Minister Chou En-lai on a secret trip to China in 1971, he expressed--to my amazement--a conviction that Japan, the United States and the Soviet Union each harbored desires to divide China.
But I did harbor this desire to make my own film".
She, like many black people I know, has every reason to remember with bitterness and to harbor a desire for revenge.
Not every parent wants to be a Tiger Mom, but many parents harbor the desire to raise a virtuoso cellist, or at the very least, children who can distinguish between their Vivaldi and their Verdi.
Unlike most students who harbor the desire to write a play, Butterworth, who followed Tom to Cambridge, sat down and wrote one, a surreal adaptation of a 1961 recipe book by Katharine Whitehorn called "Cooking in a Bedsitter"; he and Tom turned it into a black comedy about student alienation and took it to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Like parvenus throughout history, Kuhne adds, these burgeoning power centers harbor "a desire to be seen as relevant, as 'modern', as shockingly new.
Local officials said these clashes with the law had caused Yang to harbor a desire to exact "revenge on society". No other motive has been offered.
(Yeah, Well) We must not become bitter (Yeah, That's right), nor must we harbor the desire to retaliate with violence.
A lot of Freud's ideas about sex are uncomfortable, to say the least, but perhaps none more so than his claim that we secretly harbor sexual desire for our parents—something he termed the Oedipus Complex in boys and the Electra Complex in girls.
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