"mastering the world" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is usually used in a figurative sense, to refer to a person achieving great success or the feeling of being in control of your own life. For example, you could say, "After graduating from college with honors, she was confident that she was on her way to mastering the world."
Like al-Qaeda, the apolitical Salafists adhere to a Utopian vision of Islam mastering the world.
Because, I came to understand, by putting myself in the circumstances of a small child, I retrieved what I was sure I had lost forever -- the unalloyed enthusiasm a child feels when exploring and mastering the world.
Transforming the self into an integrated personality and mastering the world with tireless energy, subjective value and objective rationality once formed "one unbroken whole" [Weber 1910/1978, 319].
"The younger the kids are, the more they master the world through activity, interaction, touch".
I'd rather have that than somebody who thinks he's mastered the world and has nothing to worry about.
She says only a few words, but has already begun to master the world of mass communications.
"I think it would be better to have mastered the world of emotional intelligence," he said, "which I'm still working on".
The main streams of the influence from nature are derived from the human experience of nature itself, human beings' position in the universe, and their attempt to master the world in religious terms.
A panel devoted to "the post-dot-com era" also offered some reasons agencies are, as one panelist put it, "in a better position to master the world the dot-coms left behind".
In his frayed shirt, scuffed loafers and sagging three-piece suit, he is a model of embattled dignity, uttering faux profundities while struggling to master the world around him through a haze of drink and drugs.
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