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But it would be an indirect tax; the ordinary employe would not be aware of his "pay cut," and at least part of the burden would be shifted to farmers and other unbenefited consumers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Where they see, indeed, the accommodations of civil life, but see them all pass to others, themselves unbenefited by them.

From An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African Translated from a Latin Dissertation, Which Was Honoured with the First Prize in the University of Cambridge, for the Year 1785, with Additions by Clarkson, Thomas

And with fidelity to history's ironic precedent, the man whose dream had been strong in a world of doubters stood by unbenefited, while others who had not known the nature of a vision reaped wealth.

From The Tempering by Buck, Charles Neville

Ought a possibly large number, Swithin included, to remain unbenefited because the one individual to whom his release would be an injury chanced to be herself? 

From Two on a Tower by Hardy, Thomas

Tonge departed this life in 1680, unbenefited by the monstrous plot he had so skilfully devised; and in the same year Bedlow was carried to the grave after an illness of four days.

From Royalty Restored by Molloy, J. Fitzgerald (Joseph Fitzgerald)