All of these deterrents are negative and may be overcome by fuller recognition of the inner power that by its very nature must perpetually seek positive expression.
"Resonance in Singing and Speaking"
Thomas Fillebrown
Did they act as deterrents to vice?
"Vanishing England"
P. H. Ditchfield
But as direct deterrents they cannot conscientiously be recommended.
"Faces and Places"
Henry William Lucy