Converse of object

• become: Attendances dwindle, young people don't join, union leaders become persuaders on salaries way above their members.

Preposition: for

• unity: Major refused to act as a persuader for Irish unity.

Adjective modifier

• hidden: Those of us who were the hidden persuaders are now the revealed in all our manipulative ugliness.

• powerful: Children can be powerful persuaders and parents will often attend if their children have made the case.

• effective: The knowledge that one will be caught is the most effective persuader.

• able: He has lacked a turn of fot in the closing stages but this may be easier and Tony McCoy can prove an able persuader.