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She cited a situation where the BBC was persuaded "in the public interest" to hand over untransmitted footage surrounding the shooting of Mark Duggan, something the corporation "need not have done".

From BBC • Jul. 4, 2012

It is, of course, a rhetorical exaggeration to say that all first-class men escape marriage, and even more of an exaggeration to say that their high qualities go wholly untransmitted to posterity.

From In Defense of Women by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)

Under the old dispensation it was said, 'Greater love hath no man than this;' is it not possible now that the greatest love is that which lays down its life untransmitted?

From The Master-Knot of Human Fate by Meredith, Ellis